I Don't Care About You |
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Care About You On Album: The Spaghetti Incident Running Time: 2:09 Produced by: Mike Clink & Guns N' Roses Engineered by: Jim Mitchell Mixed by: Bill Price Audio: N/A Single: No Video: No |
Vocals: Axl Lead and Rhythm Guitars: Slash Rhythm Guitar: Gilby Bass: Duff Drums: Matt Background Vocals: Slash, Rikki Rachtman, S.C. Bailey, Blake Stanton, Eric Mills Written by: "I Don't Care About You" was written by Lee Ving. Written in: "I Don't Care About You" was written in or before 1982. Additional Info: Fear released a live version of "I Don't Care About You", in 1986, on the album "Live For The Record". |
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Lyrics |
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| Yeah! I'm from South Philadelphia Up on Avenue C I've seen empty hands that was waitin to freeze Up from the power at home I don't care about you Fuck you! I don't care about you Fuck you! I seen Hollywood Boulevard Welfare Hotel And I spent the night in jail At the Wilkins Hotel I don't care about you Fuck you! I don't care about you Fuck you! I seen an old man have a heart attack in Manhattan Well, he died while we just stood their looking at him |
Ain't he cute? I don't care about you Fuck you! I don't care about you Fuck you! I seen men rolling drugs I seen bodies in the streets I saw a man who was sleeping in his own puke And a man with no leg crawlin' down Fifth Street Trying to God to get something to eat I don't care about you Fuck you! I don't care about you Fuck you! Fuck you! [spoken] Uh, that hurt man Alright Perfect |
| Live Performances | |
"I Don't Care About You" was never performed live by Guns N' Roses. |
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| In Their Own Words | |
| Slash: That song happens to be a sentiment that I appreciated
for as long as I can remember. In our junkie days, me and a friend of mine, Danny Biral,
used to cruise around town in this huge green Oldsmobile and try to cop. We listened to
the Fear cassette because that's all we had. That song turned into an anthem for us. When
the band was talking about punk songs, I was adamant about doing that one.1 Slash: I wanted to do Nazareth's "Hair Of The Dog", T-Rex "Buick Makane", and Fears "I Don't Care About You". Those are songs that meant much to me.2 |
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Background |
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Eric Mills, who sings some background vocals on
"I Don't Care About You" is an old childhood friend of Slash. Back in the
days when Slash had his first real band, Tidus Sloan, the band even did one
small gig at Eric Mills' hous in September 1981. In addition to that S.C. Bailey is Axl's half-brother. In Paris 1993 the band brought Blake Stanton on stage for "You Ain't The First. Rikki Rachtman (sometimes referred to as Riki Rachtman) was the MTV's Headbanger's Ball host from 1990-1995 and people claim that he only got the job because Axl Rose was instrumental in doing so. Furthermore he insisted in being a witness when Izzy grabbed the boob of Vince Neil's girlfriend and "started" what later became the Vince Neil-Axl Rose-feud. |
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